Maven update jar before packaging in WAR

Question

I have a project where I am packaging a WAR using simple maven-war-plugin. Along with all other dependencies one of the dependency say 'abc.jar' which is getting packaged in war contains a default spring configurations which I would like to update with the custom one before packaging. I have maven profile configured to be activated if following build command applied;

mvn clean install -DframeworkPacakging=XYZ

I am trying to use 'truezip-maven-plugin' to overwrite my custom spring configurations inside in 'abc.jar' present in 'target/aretfacts-id/WEB-INF/lib' but when maven-war-plugin finishes I loose my changes because war plugin takes the file from dependency definition. How can I solve this issue and what are my options?

P.S. Distributing configuration is not desirable as this setup would be used for Embedded Jetty Server running within Eclipse

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '14 at 09:00

to prevent inclusion of the original jar file, I would use go for approach suggested on: https://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg38537.html

Use <scope>provided</scope> for this dependency to keep it out of the lib directory.

to include the repackaged one, I'd follow suggestion from: How to make Maven copy resource file into WEB-INF/lib directory?

Try changing the configuration of the maven war plugin to include a webResource:

<configuration>
  <webResources>
    <resource>
      <directory>pathtorepackagedjar</directory>
      <includes>
        <include>**/abc.jar</include>
      <includes>        
     <targetPath>WEB-INF/lib</targetPath>
    </resource>
  </webResources>
</configuration>

Maven update jar before packaging in WAR

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